Cost Budgeting is Inappropriate in Complex Commercial Cases

Oxford style debate chaired by Lord Dyson (Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice). Proposing the motion: Hilton Mervis and Nicholas Bacon QC. Opposing the motion: Lord Justice Jackson (Lord Justice of Appeal and author of the Review of Civil Litigation Costs) and Roger Stewart QC. Motion passed. Commercial Litigators’ Forum, London, England